Crystal Clear is 10!
An arts organisation and small publisher with strong links to the School of English and Centre for New Writing is to celebrate its tenth anniversary by publishing an anthology of poetry and short fiction, and running a recording project. Crystal Clear Creators, a well-known not-for-profit arts organisation and company limited by guarantee, which is co-directed by Jonathan Taylor, Lecturer […]
Short story short-list
Dr Jonathan Taylor’s Kontakte and Other Stories has been short-listed for the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection 2014 and The Leicester Shindig Open-Mic Poetry Evenings which Jonathan, as Crystal Clear Creators, runs with Nine Arches Press has also been shortlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Regular Spoken Word Night 2014. The outcomes will be […]
SPELL’s Apolo-tree
Apology I’ve used a lot of paper, I know that’s pretty bad, and when I think about it it makes me kind of sad. I’ve pondered on the problem, I’ve thought about it hard and that used up realms of paper and stacks and stacks of card. I’ve racked my brains and […]
Transgender Day of Remembrance
20 November marks Transgender Day of Remembrance. TDoR was established in 1998 to memorialize those murdered because of transphobia, and to spotlight the extraordinarily high levels of violence faced by transsexuals, transvestites, and gender variant people. According to statistics gathered by The Trans Murder Monitoring Project, a transgender person is killed approximately every three […]
Bibliotherapy: Engaging with Asylum Seekers and Refugees
I was recently invited by my friend and former colleague Christine Chettle, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, to lead a guest workshop for STAR (Student Action for Refugees) in Little London, a suburb of Leeds. Please visit their national website on the following link: http://www.star-network.org.uk/ When Christine originally asked me to contribute […]
Invite to Dickens Day
Dickens Day: Dickens and History, Sat. 12th October 2013 You are warmly invited to Dickens Day, a lively annual event for Dickens fans, students and academics. Jointly run by the University of Leicester, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Dickens Fellowship, Dickens Day is now in its 27th year. This time we will be looking at how […]
Centre for New Writing Events Sept-Dec 2013
We have planned an exciting programme of free literary events this semester at the Centre for New Writing (CNW). This includes Man Booker shortlisted writer, Amitav Ghosh on Fiction and History as well as readings, masterclasses and an open mic session for postgraduate students. Literary Leicester, the University’s annual festival will take place between 13-16 November, so book your free tickets as soon as possible (see http://www2.le.ac.uk/institution/literary-leicester/litleic2012). The CNW programme for […]
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